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Managing Multiple AWS Profiles

Mar 5, 2018

I recently needed to be able to use the AWS CLI for managing AWS resources in
China’s Beijing Region. It took a little bit more than a simple Google search,
so I thought I’d write a quick post on it. In addition, I still wanted to use
the AWS CLI to manage resources in the us-west-2 region as well.

My searching eventually led me to AWS Named Profiles. After another few
minutes of searching, I finally found the region abbreviation for Beijing,
cn-north-1. Anyways, I’ve copied some of the config files in the Named
Profile example and modified them to more accurately reflect my config: